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  • Plato Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Joseph Addison The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Believe me! The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • James Allen Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
    James Allen
    British philosophical writer (1864 - 1912)
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  • Aristotle First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Confucius By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Habit is second nature.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Ralph Charell It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived…
    Ralph Charell
    American author
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  • Epicurus Of all things which wisdom provides to make life entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
    Elizabeth Cady Stanton
    American suffragist, abolitionist and women's rights activist (1815 - 1902)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Helen Rowland A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • C. P. Snow A good many times I have been present at gatherings of people who, by the standards of the traditional culture, are thought highly educated and who have with considerable gusto been expressing their incredulity at the illiteracy of scientists. Once or twice I have been provoked and have asked the company how many of them could describe the Second Law of Thermodynamics. The response was cold: it was also negative. Yet I was asking something which is about the scientific equivalent of: Have you re
    The Two Cultures (1959)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Eric Hoffer A great man's greatest good luck is to die at the right time.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Cyril Connolly A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Mark Twain Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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